There was a time when motoring along U.S. 41 you couldn't miss the once-thriving Giant's Fish Camp besides the Alafia River Bridge. ...more

July 9, 2008

Masque Community Theatre is a perfect example of how a venue of its type should serve its neighbors, Cyn LoPinto says. ...more

July 9, 2008

The Friends of Weedon Island is offering a $500 reward for information leading to the return of three artifacts stolen from an exhibit at the preserve. ...more

July 8, 2008

The city will seek conventional means to finance the parking garage and land for an arts and education center in its 20.36-acre redevelopment area south of Bullard Parkway and east of Busch Boulevard. ...more

July 2, 2008

RIVERVIEW - Mosaic Fertilizer announced today that it has purchased the historic Giant's Camp in Riverview, a once-thriving down-home restaurant and bait shop run by a man known on the carnival sideshow circuit as The Giant. ...more

June 27, 2008

EAST LAKE -- Pinellas County officials' plan to designate 900 acres of the Brooker Creek Preserve for a future water treatment facility has drawn fire from environmentalists and others. At a Tuesday night town hall meeting at the Brooker Creek Preserve Education Center, county land management and utilities officials presented a revised management plan for the 8,000-plus-acre county-owned preserve. ...more

June 11, 2008

Last weekend, the Gulf High School class of 1958 celebrated its 50th reunion. With just 39 seniors, it was one of the smallest graduating classes in the state. The high school, which included students from grades 7-12, had an enrollment that rarely exceeded 300. It was located at Grand Boulevard and Gulf Drive, currently home to the Schwettman Education Center. ...more

May 30, 2008

When you're a kid, the thought of switching schools can be downright terrifying. ...more

February 21, 2008

When you're a kid, the thought of switching schools can be downright terrifying. That's why local students are doing what they can to keep gifted services at Challenger K-8 School of Science and Mathematics. ...more

February 20, 2008

With the Hernando County School Board's recent decision to place the district's future centralized gifted education center at Explorer K-8 - the new, 2,100-student school set to open this August off Northcliffe Boulevard - local officials are banking on the county becoming home to a premier educational program for students with higher-than-average IQs. ...more

February 12, 2008